Summary:
ZIP code 40503 has six Fayette County schools serving elementary through high school: three elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school. In 2025–2026, every reported school proficiency score was above Kentucky’s score for the same subject and grade, though results differed substantially among local schools. The main takeaway is that these schools generally outperform the state, but a state comparison alone can hide meaningful differences between nearby schools.
SCAPA at Bluegrass and Clays Mill stand out in many same-grade comparisons. SchoolDigger ranked SCAPA 2nd of 326 middle schools and Clays Mill 9th of 684 elementary schools in 2025–2026. SCAPA led Grade 8 reading with 92%, compared with 53% at Jessie M. Clark; even Jessie M. Clark was above the state’s 40%. Clays Mill led Grade 3 reading at 86%, while Stonewall had 70%. The local spread was also wide in Grade 5 writing: Clays Mill scored 75% and Stonewall 50%, against 35% statewide. Lafayette led the available high-school comparisons, exceeding state results in all six reported subjects; its graduation rate was 98%, versus 94% statewide. Wellington was the low result in Grade 3 math among the listed elementary schools, at 66%, compared with Clays Mill’s 80%.
Recent results were mixed rather than moving uniformly upward: across matched school-grade-subject results, scores rose by about 1 point on average. Stonewall’s SchoolDigger rank improved from 89th to 44th, Clays Mill moved from 15th to 9th, and SCAPA remained 2nd. School context varies, too: free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–2025 ranged from 14% at SCAPA to 36% at Wellington; student-teacher ratios ranged from 10.3 at SCAPA to 18.7 at Lafayette. Lafayette is a notable exception to a simple achievement-and-attendance pattern: its chronic absenteeism was 36%, above the district’s 25% and state’s 24%, despite its strong scores and graduation rate. These figures describe differences among schools, not causes of their results.
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